The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-14

A TERRIFIC confagration is raging in the
town of Veszprem, Hungary. Two hundred
houses have been reduced to ashes.
SAN SALVADOR revolutionists have sur
prised and taken the port of La Union
through treachery to the government.
A FIRE in the Grant locomotive works at
! Paterson, n. j., did S150.000 damage and
throws 600 people out of employment.
DURING revival meeting at Neemore,
| Tenn, a church floor gave way, letting
down seventy people some thirteen feet.
THE river Nile is so high that a large num-
! Der of estates are flooded. The crops are
almost ruined and a famine is imminent.
THE comparison of Boston's statistics with
those of other cities gives Boston good
showing in regard to preventable diseases.
THE inhabitants all along Cape Hatteras
suffered severely in the late cyclone. A
great deal of damage was done by the storm.
A. PARTY of picnickers in Illinois have
| been arrested because one of them, in firing
at mark, shot woman going to funeral.
THE North Star Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of st. Paul, Mimi, has recently
met with severe losses and has decided to
go out of business.
The business portion of Newburg, On
| tario, was burned last week, including thirty
residences. John Wells was so seriously
burned that be will probably die
SEvENTY-FIvE thousand dollars have been
taken from the vault of Darke county
treasury, Ohio and Treasurer Simon and
his son are suspected of taking it. They are
| under arrest
THE Paris newspapers all agree that the
| modifying experiment. is n success. They
say that if France had been in such a con-
dtion for war in 1870 as she is now Germany
would have found her match.
LAST week Senator Stanford, Colonel G.
f. Crocker and Stephen 1. Gage discussed
the giving of free transportation across the
continent to all immigrants coming to Cali
fornia, all being in favor thereof.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM AIKEN of South
| Carolina died last week, aged eighty-one.
He was governor of South Carolina in 1914,
congressman from 1851 to 1851 and before
the war was the largest STAKEHOLDER in the
state.
MARSHALL T. POLK, defaulting county
treasurer in Tennessee, fled a few years
ago and was supposed to have died He
has now turned up in Mexico. His stealings
amounted to several hundred thousand
dollars.
THE ship Falls of Bruar " of Glasgow,
with cargo of salt, foundered off Yarmouth,
England the cargo having shifted Five of
the crew were rescued and twenty-four
were drowned, most of whom were Germans
and Swedes.
A STORM near Norwich, n. Y, destroyed
a house, unroofed another, overturned sew
eral barns, threw down many chimneys and
devastated orchards and hop-felds. Sew
eral barns in the vicinity were struck by
lightning and burned.
AN astonishing tire-arm has been intro
duced in France. 1t is of French origin and
is wonderful in the results obtained. AT
5000 feet distance ninety-eight per cent of
the balls hit number of baskets represent
ing a company of soldiers.
A GREAT sensation was created in Mexico
1tra linz i.la in tha al
cdnO, giving an astounding revelation of the
conduct of Emperor MaXimillian on the sur
render of the city of Queretaro, in which he
acted the part of a coward.
HARRY KENToN, wealthy farmer living
near Urbana, Ohio, was swindled out of
$500 by sharpers by the gold brick game
The men escaped and wrote Kenton from
New York, telling him the brick cost 81 and
that they were sorry for him.
A TERRIBLE storm passed over Oneida
county, n. y. Amos Cornell was lifted off
his feet by the wind and thrown against a
barrel twenty-five feet distant and killed.
Two other men were severely njured. -Four
houses and barns were destroyed
AN eXpress-train on the Baltimore &
Ohio road became unmanageable, and
while tearing down hill at the rate of
seventy-fve miles an hour plunged into a
ravine a hundred feet deep. Strange as it
may seem, only one person was killed.
NAPrHA exploded in the cargo of a
f schooner approaching the wharf at Boston
The whole deck was lifted off and the
wreck was quickly wrapped in flames
which spread to a storehOuse on shore
-Four men on deck and one below We're in.
stantly killed.
THE London Times prints George w
Childs' cordial invitation to Gladstone tC
visit Philadelphia during the celebration OF
the centennial of the Constitution this
month and Gladstone's declination. The
Times shows its Tory instincts by saying
that Gladstone is not the best representa-
tive of modern England.
In the New Hampshire legislature last
week definite charges of an attempt tC
bride him to speak and vote for the HaZeI
railway bill for $1,000 were made by Sen
ator Saver The charge is made agains
! Kirk ID. Pierce, nephew of ex-President
Pierce. The matter is being investigated
by legislative committee.
A SENSATION was produced in the New
Hampshire Legislature last week wher
Hazen, who fathered the railroad bill
friendly to the Boston & Maine, announced
his intention to support the other bill, in in
terest of the Concord road, because friends
t of the latter had given bond of $780, t,
construct a branch road which would be o
: great value to HaZen's constituency.
THE President and Speaker Carlisle ha,
g a conference at Oak View last week. TIL
. discussion related principally to the tariff
BILL which has practically received the in
: dorsement of the administration, an outlin
of which measure contemplates the abolition
j. of the tobacco and fruit brandy tax, a re
duction of the customs duties and large ad
a ditons to the free list. This measure ha
been referred to Secretary Fairchild.
THE New York World prints what pun
y ports to be an official and authoritative in
, terview with President Cleveland, in whic
the President is represented as saying tina
he would much prefer to return to privat
II life at the end of his term, but if his admin
istration "should justify the reason for sui
,r stituting in control of the government tn
party which | represent for that whic
M had administered the affairs of the peopl
~ for quarter of a century," and If his part
should wish him to remain at the head {
the government for another four year,
then he should feel it his duty to accept
d denomination.
A THEATER at Exeter, England, took fir
y during performance of "The Roman
. Rye" The occupants of the pit, after a
of awful struggle, escaped, but many of thel
l. were greatly injured. There was only on
y exit from the gallery The rush there wa
=, terrific Scores We're trodden under foo
~ and suifocated. A fre-escape was brougl
+" to a window and many inside were rescue,
The victims We're mostly working-peopl
The loss of life is estimated at one hundre
IN forty AT a public funeral of the victim
there were fifty-two Baskets containin
"a identified bodies and fourteen cOntai min